Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Bec de Corbin
Special type of a polehammer.
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- Armet
- Close-fitted helmet with a visor and hinged cheek coverings. More sofisticated than bascinet and less sofisticated than…
- Bec de Faucon
- Polearm with a large hammer head instead of an axe, and backed with a spike or curved fluke. Usually has a heavy steel…
- Abbasi
- Straight-bladed steel sword with a padded hilt; back of the blade was strengthened by supports; often highly decorated with gold inlay and gilt.
- Recurve bow
- Unlike the longbow, the ends of an unstrung recurve bow are curved away from the archer. This allows the strung bow to be more powerful and shorter…
